Ubisoft's upcoming air-combat game isn't just about the fancy fixed-wing fighter aircraft. The latest trailer for Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X. 2 shows you'll be in charge of helicopters and the massive AC-130 gunship too. The demo's already out on both consoles.

The latest Ubisoft game to bear the Tom Clancy name is H.A.W.X. 2, the sequel to the original, million-selling arcade-style flight sim. Billions of dollars in virtual aircraft will once again be blowing up this fall.

Of course it isn't the real White House or Air Force one. This is the White House and Air Force One of an alternate-reality 2014, where the state-sponsored military has been replaced with private armies, who can get things done the way only private armies could - with tons of explosions.

This is real pie-in-the-sky stuff, so remain seated while reading, but here goes: Ubisoft are looking into turning their five Tom Clancy series - Ghost Recon, Splinter Cell, Rainbow Six, Endwar and Hawx - into a "megagame". How's that going to work? Here's how. They'll do it in baby steps. For example, in the next…

As one commenter elsewhere points out, must be Europe buying all these Imagine titles, because for Ubisoft it's a bigger market than the U.S., "by more than five percent," said Ubi CEO Yves Guillemot in an interview with Gamesindustry.biz. From the sound of it, the strength of European currencies against the dollar…

How quickly "Fall 2008" becomes "Q1 2009." Ubisoft is the next up to confess it's shunted a title out of its fall lineup into next year, after we reported a similar delay for Namco-Bandai's Afro Samurai. This time, it's Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X, according to CVG, which sails right past Fall 2008 to land anywhere between…

Last week's MLG San Diego was notable for its debut of the Cold Storage map for Halo 3. It also gave people a look at a "very early test phase" version of Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X., the arcade flight combat sim forthcoming from Ubisoft by the end of the year. The game was a demo playable by anyone in attendance. A reader…

For those of you who somehow missed all of our Ubisoft coverage, which stretched from early afternoon until late into the night, I've compiled all of our stories on the jump. They include hands on with Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway, H.A.W.X. and Far Cry 2 as well as tons of interviews and impressions.

Ubisoft held their Paris Ubidays today, officially announcing that Beyond Good & Evil was on its way along with a slew of other titles including a DS game to help people quit smoking and a new snowboard title.

Here's a nice little surprise, I may not be able to write about my hands-on time with Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X. quite yet, but I can post these screens that Ubisoft just sent out. Hit the jump to read the full fictional history of High Altitude Warefare and the H.A.W.X. experimental squadron.